J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island race UK, multihull record breakers throw down the gauntlet for new competitors

From the following article on bymnews,com

 

http://www.bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=126127

 

Saturday 1st June 2013 was certainly a day to remember. it was a day of highs, and more highs and, it was a day for Round the Island Race records to tumble.  It was the day when Great Britain's most successful Olympic sailor and America's Cup winner, Sir Ben Ainslie, and his all-British crew aboard the AC45 J.P. Morgan BAR, trounced the existing Round the Island Race multihull record, held for 12 years by Francis Joyon, by an impressive 16 minutes. The gauntlet has been well and truly thrown down for Race Day on 21st June 2014 ...and 2.52.15 is the time to beat!

 

Meanwhile, Sir Ben, under the auspices of J.P. Morgan Asset Management and the Island Sailing Club, will be holding a public Q&A session on 8th January at the London Boat Show where his Race record-breaking AC45 will be on display and there will be some exciting Race news announced at 11.30am.

 

read more here

 

It's interesting to note that the absolute record around the course is held by the MOD70 trimaran 'Foncia' with 'Oman Air-Musandam' hot on their heels but it was set during Cowes week 2012 not the Round the Island Race.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/sailing/round-the-island-record-broken-during-cowes-week-8053762.html

 

JP Morgan Round the Island Race

The JP Morgan Round the Island Race has been run with a new outright record set by Ben Ainslie who finished the race in 2 hours 52 minutes 15 seconds on an AC45 catamaran.  This new time improved Francis Joyon’s 2001 time by 16 minutes and takes the record time to less than three hours.

The JP Morgan Round the Island Race website is here

Thanks to "Blackburn" for the heads up on the video and results.

Information sessions for upcoming Round the Island Race/UK

The Island Sailing Club are holding some informational sessions for competitors in the upcoming Round the Island Race in the UK

 

From the following BYM news article

 

http://www.bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=115680

 

The J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race management team at the Island Sailing Club is holding three more free-to-attend and informative Forums this Spring, with the first one on Saturday 23rd March at Portsmouth Harbour Yacht Club at Port Solent, Hampshire. The Forum starts at 4.30pm.

This first event will be followed by two more Forums:

 

Saturday 6th April 1630 Parkstone Yacht Club, Poole

Saturday 20th April 1630 Island Sailing Club, Cowes

 

read more here

Early bird entries open for the UK 2013 Round the Island Race

The Round the Island Race in the UK has seen some epic performances over the years by both multihull and monohull crews the course starting in Cowes on the Isle of Wight attracts massive fleets with the multihull division ranging from massive super maxi trimarans to trailerable trimarans last year the Multi 50 Actual smoked around the Island in fresh conditions and came within a minute of breaking the multihull record held by Francis Joyon.  The entries are now open for the 2013 race.

http://www.roundtheisland.org.uk/web/code/php/main_c.php?section=home

There is also a video that has a glimpse of Prince de Bretagne Multi 50 and later shows Actual as she rounds the Needles during the 2012 race